Dhaka, April 6 -- Many people in the region, particularly in the Barind tract, are gradually improving their living and livelihood conditions by engaging in the production and marketing of vermicompost, an organic fertilizer whose demand is rising for crop and vegetable cultivation over the past few years.
Basically, the venture is contributing a lot towards lessening the gradually mounting pressure on chemical fertilizer in the region, including its vast Barind tract.
Karigorpara village under Paba upazila in the district has already been declared as a 100 percent vermicompost-producing and using village. No chemical fertilizers will be used in the village's farmlands anymore, as all farmers have switched to vermicompost produced locally...